Lazy!

I have found that I am just a big lazy oaf. Whatever that is! When my kids were home I could never get anything done. I always said well if I had more time or if they would just let me get things done, then this house would sparkle! The fact is without my kids here, I am just lonely and I still don't get anything done! So I guess the real me is just LAZY! Luckily I do not have to remain this way I can teach myself to love keeping a tidy house.
When I was a nanny I kept a tidy house, dinner was on the table each night at 5pm and it never included breakfast items, the laundry was done by noon every day and we had guests all the time. The key difference in being a MOM and a nanny is pay and expectation. As a nanny I was expected to get everything done and was payed well for it! If I added in things like straightening out the linen closet there was much praise involved. I loved that job! As a mom there is little or no praise when you straighten out the linen closet, they repay you by making it messy again. There is no monetary pay either. Which means you have to do it out of the shear joy it brings to you and your family. Which quite often brings me no joy at all. Mostly I am just tired of all the work and none of the satisfaction. I am a people pleaser I enjoy hard work when my employer gives me lots of compliments. Yet in my day to day life as a mom I get no compliments. So how do I learn to pay myself? That is the question?

-I could invite friends over
-play a game of how long will it take for my family to give compliments
-pay myself with things I enjoy

Hmmm, I'll have to think about that. By the way is anyone interested in paying me to keep my own house clean? I didn't think so! So until next time, I'll be trying to motivate myself to clean up this house!